Month: April 2011
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Twitter roundup
From my Twitter feed (4/5-4/8) Brendan Nyhan Apr 8, 2011 at 5:55 PM Powered by Keepstream BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan MT @kinggary “27% of communication by members of Congress is taunting, prof concludes” WaPo http://j.mp/etHP8D based on http://j.mp/ey1oxs 27% of communication by members of Congress is taunting, professor concludes Here’s a statistic that may explain the budget
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A Thomas Friedman movie cliché retrospective
Thomas Friedman’s lazy, cringe-inducing reference to “A Few Good Men” last week (“You want the truth about [the Middle East]? You can’t handle the truth.”) got me thinking. The New York Times columnist is a legendarily bad writer with what Matt Taibbi described as “an anti-ear” that is “absolutely infallible.” What other movie quotes have
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Mark Penn wrong on “historical odds” of Obama victory
Democratic pollster Mark Penn writes the following: Only two Democrats in the last 90 years have been reelected to a second term — Franklin Roosevelt and Bill Clinton. The rest of the Democrats have seen their presidencies cut short, and so the historical odds of Obama winning a second term are at first glance not
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Twitter roundup
From my Twitter feed (3/29-4/5) Brendan Nyhan Apr 5, 2011 at 2:27 PM Powered by Keepstream BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan RT @SteveKornacki: Gregg Easterbrook claims 3 of last 7 WH elections decided by 3rd party spoilers. False! http://bit.ly/g3C1ty War Room: The myths that just won’t die Repeat after me: Ross Perot didn’t cost George H.W. Bush the